Conservation of Wildlife Populations (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780192898166)

Dr L. Scott Mills has recently retired as Associate Vice President of Research for Global Change and Sustainability, and a Wildlife Biology Professor at the University of Montana. He also holds a Research Professor appointment at Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences. From 2013 to 2016 he was a Chancellor's Faculty Excellence Fellow in Global Environmental Change and Human Well-Being at North Carolina State University. His honors include an NSF Early Career Award, John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, and Fulbright Specialist Award. He has testified before the US Congress on endangered species science and has contributed to Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports.

Dr Andrew R. Whiteley is an Associate Professor of Fisheries and Conservation Genomics at the University of Montana. His position is in the Wildlife Biology Program and Department of Ecosystem and Conservation Sciences within the Franke College of Forestry and Conservation. His research broadly involves understanding population viability of fish populations, along with various other organisms. He earned a US National Science Foundation Early Career Award and has published more than 80 research papers in his field.

Dr Mahdieh Tourani is an Assistant Professor of Quantitative Ecology at the University of Montana. She teaches quantitative courses to graduate and undergraduate students in the Wildlife Biology Program and Department of Ecosystem and Conservation Sciences within the Franke College of Forestry and Conservation. Her research broadly involves developing and applying analytical models to wildlife monitoring data at local to global scales. She develops decision support tools to facilitate the use of statistical models in wildlife management and inform conservation of wildlife populations across the globe.